Hello, sorry for my delay in answering. On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, James Knott wrote:
$ grep 'sd.[0-9]$' /proc/partitions 8 17 31457280 sdb1 8 18 1048576 sdb2 8 19 31457280 sdb3 8 20 1 sdb4 8 21 1889550304 sdb5 8 1 5253223 sda1 8 2 1060290 sda2 8 3 31463302 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 5253223 sda5 8 6 31463271 sda6 8 7 413890596 sda7 8 49 1953514552 sdd1 8 65 1953513560 sde1 8 81 1953514552 sdf1 8 97 1044188 sdg1 8 98 10490448 sdg2 8 99 1941977362 sdg3 8 113 1953514552 sdh1 8 33 1465136001 sdc1 8 129 488384001 sdi1
How do you sanely handle this? Why so many partitions? It seems to me, this is precisely the situation where you'd want LVM. With it, you could create whatever
David Haller wrote: partitions you want in the LVM and adjust them as needed. Also, if you have mulitple drives, you can have a RAID array and place the LVM on top of it. That way, you don't have to worry about drives failing, as you simply replace them and rebuilt the RAID array.
You need to hone your reading skills, i.e. focus on the letters between the "sd" and the numbers. That's: - 1 drive with 2 systems (each with a / and /home, data stuff is (sym-)linked into the homes), plus one "data" partition (sda) and a swap. - 1 drive prepped for 2 systems (/ only + a "data") and a swap (sdb) (and which is intended to migrate the sda systems to) - 1 drive with an extra "home2" (for misc stuff) and a swap (sdg) - all other drives: 1 partition/drive, formatted with 'mk2fs -j -T largefile -m 0 ...' How's that "so many" partitions? How else could you have ~13TiBi formatted capacity? -dnh -- I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org